Community ecology has a clear need to develop an understanding of the structure and
dynamics of natural communities. Interspecific competition is considered key in structuring …

In the past two decades, studies of anatomy, behavior, and, most recently, DNA sequences
have clarified the phylogeny of the ants at the subfamily and generic levels. In addition, a …

Knowledge on the distribution and abundance of organisms is fundamental to
understanding their roles within ecosystems and their ecological importance for other taxa …

Fungal endophytes are ubiquitous fungi that inhabit healthy plant tissues without causing
disease. Endophytes have been found in every plant species examined to date and may be …

Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen
percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their …

The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison
exploded the myth of 'the rain forest'as a single, uniform entity. In reality, the major tropical …

Species richness is an important characteristic of ecological communities, but it is difficult to
quantify. We report here a thorough inventory of a tropical rain forest ant fauna and use it to …

Aunque los orígenes de las hormigas (cuándo, dónde y cómo) sean misterios que nunca
podremos resolver, lo cierto es que hace unos 100 millones de años ya existían hormigas …

For decades, there has been enormous scientific interest in tropical savannahs and
grasslands, fuelled by the recognition that they are a dynamic and potentially unstable …

Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a
major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial …